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Tunnels
Captured impulse responses from disused Northamptonshire railway tunnels Oxendon Tunnel and Kelmarsh Tunnel as part of the Northampton to Market Harborough line built in 1859 and 1879.
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These tunnels were known as the “rat-holes” by the train drivers on the line due to small bores of the tunnels.
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Passengers stopped running on the line in 1960, with final closure in 1981, with the tunnels currently opened as a part of a footpath to this day.
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The Old Print Works
The Old Print Works is an intact grade 2 listed Edwardian factory building, that housed J. T. Butcher and Co Transfers, which used litho and silk screen printing methods from 1896.
The building now houses many of the creative community within Balsall Heath in Birmingham, and still contains the traditional Edwardian factory features, in some really interesting spaces.
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Captured impulse responses from a variety of ‘Forgotten Spaces’, which include some of the following spaces: Beech Caves (Rave Cave); Thor’s Cave; Cobb’s Engine House; Lilleshall Abbey (Parlour and Sacristy); Coseley Canal Tunnel; and Netherton Canal Tunnel.
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IRL Impulse Responses capture high quality stereo impulse response models of unique and interesting spaces that also sound really cool!
Convolution Reverb plugins use impulse response files to model the sound of spaces, however often these sounds are ‘generic’ and don’t have the unique sound that you’re looking for.
What’s better than the sound of a ‘generic tunnel reverb’?
How about Netherton Canal Tunnel in Dudley, one of the longest canal tunnels in the world!?
These impulse responses are captured using sine wave sweep methods to excite the spaces, and are produced and captured by high quality reference studio monitors and speakers to ensure that there is as little colouration as possible and capture the unique sounds of these awesome spaces!
The sine wave sweep method is definitely the preferred method of capture compared to the transient method of capturing impulse responses - as the transient method tends to leave the tonal quality of the ‘balloon pop’ or ‘clap’ that was used to generate the impulse response.
Using the sine sweep method through reference equipment allows you to hear the unique sound of the space without colouration.
These are also captured using binaural recording techniques, so that it gives an accurate representation of what it is like to be in these awesome places.
I hope you enjoy the sounds of some of the most interesting places that I have been!
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